{Minute Meditation} Are We Strong Enough?

This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. 

So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, 

while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith. 

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

I found this quote online this morning as I searched for quotes to post on Twitter and Facebook this 4th of July.  As I read it, I stopped to think: Are we American Christians strong enough to keep the faith in the face of our adversary in this nation that was built on the foundations of our Faith?

I don't usually write political posts, but as I considered Luke 13:23-30 this morning, I wondered: Will God open doors for us when we knock for eternity? Will He recognize us as being the ones who stood up and said we wouldn't stand for moral decay and foreign gods in our country? Would we be ones who understood that Victory was Jesus' and that we also can walk in that victory, conquering our enemies as even Joshua conquered his? Will we face the giants of democracy, homosexuality, deceitfulness, and so many more, or will we drop our stones and run? Will we unite for the greater cause of Jesus Christ or will we allow ourselves to be silenced?

What say you, Christian? Is the battle already won? Or not?

"Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, 

will seek to enter and will not be able."

~ Luke 13:23

Happy Independence Day!

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever; That a revolution of the wheel of fortune, a change of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by Supernatural influence! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in that event."
_{--Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237.}

_{Thomas Jefferson}

 

 

 "When we view the blessings with which our country has been favored, those which we now enjoy, and the means which we possess of handing them down unimpaired to our latest posterity, our attention is irresistibly drawn to the source from whence they flow. Let us then, unite in offering our most grateful acknowledgments for these blessings to the Divine Author of All Good."
_{--James Monroe made this statement in his 2nd Annual Message to Congress, November 16, 1818.}

 

 

 

 "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
_{--The Trumpet Voice of Freedom: Patrick Henry of Virginia, p. iii.}